You have a web site on the internal network that contain your company information and you want to allow access to it from the internet, the link for the site as it appears from the internal network is:

  • https://info.mycompany.com/info

It doesn’t look logical to publish that link with the extra “/info” in the end, now does it? of course, you’ll be using a simpler link that easier for users to remember, the link should be published as:

  • https://info.mycompany.com

Most of the articles in the internet that solves this problem will give steps of crating a Deny Policy that have a redirection to the correct site, I honestly don’t like it for the sake of not overloading ISA with policies, so there is another method that corrects this problem but its not widely known on the internet which is Path Redaction.

Path redirection allows you to modify the incoming URL requests from external users and map it with a new URL that you specify on the same ISA web publishing rule, the trick on making path redirection work on the same web publishing rule is to use the “Path” tap and adding the following (based on our example):

External Path Internal Path
<same as internal> /info/*
/ /info\
Paths in ISA Web Publishing Rule
 
This rule will accept requests that have the “/info” path added, and it will also accept requests from users who forgot to add the path in their browser, the publishing rule should look like this:
 
Path Paths tap in ISA 2006

 

Remember, this is only one of the few tricks that can accomplish the job with very minimal work, you can use many other ways like the “Link Translation” or “Deny Policy” mentioned above.